James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Intellectual Identity
W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual
The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du
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The Lost Black Scholar: A New Book on the Pioneering Anthropologist Allison Davis
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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“Why Aren’t Black People More Optimistic?”
In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time
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#AAIHS2018: Reflecting on the Past’s Presence 3.0
I’m grateful to continue the tradition of offering an AAIHS conference summary again this year, as I did in 2016
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